Scrubs Revival Draws 11.36 Million Viewers in First Five Days

Scrubs returned to ABC with a two-episode premiere that drew 11.36 million viewers across ABC, Disney+ and Hulu, marking the network's best comedy streaming ratings in over a year. The total reached heights last seen with the premiere of Shifting Gears, signaling renewed appetite for the long-running medical sitcom.

While Sacred Heart Hospital looks familiar, the series now films on a recreated set in Vancouver after the original North Hollywood Medical Center was demolished in 2011. J.D. (Zach Braff) reappears as a concierge doctor who drops in while checking on an elderly patient's grandson, decides to stay and becomes Chief of Medicine, replacing Dr.

Cox; he and Elliot (Sarah Chalke) are divorced and co-parent two children. Turk (Donald Faison) and Carla (Judy Reyes) remain married and are raising four children, and a new head of HR (Vanessa Bayer) and a fresh crop of interns shake up the old routines.

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